Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps I'll have another go at explaining it to the opposition. These orders were not all cancelled on the same day at the same time. It was an iterative process where some were cancelled. They weren't all cancelled at the same time. It's not like the chief executive rings up and says, 'Hey, we just had six cancelled.' Yesterday I provided a factual summary to the Australian people on the total number that had been cancelled over the recent period. That is what transparency looks like. The alternative is the approach of the Leader of the Opposition, who went to social media on Saturday and said that Australian refineries are exporting diesel and petrol, which is simply untrue. A former energy minister should know better than that.

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